Innovation Engineer

National Grid Electricity Transmission's (NGET) Innovation team plays a big part in delivering an affordable network that is safe, reliable and resilient, and is critical for decarbonising the UK economy through innovation. We work with innovators and stakeholders through the entire lifecycle of an innovation project, to anticipate the future needs for NGET. As Innovation Engineer, you'll demonstrate your expertise and enthusiasm for innovation by conducting research and development, delivering innovation projects, and supporting on embedding projects into business as usual. You'll lead a given innovation technical area to drive value across the business. These areas include:

• Overhead Lines
• Undergrounding Technologies
• Power System Engineering / Electronics
• Transformers and Switchgear
• Civils and Construction Methods
• Protection, Control, Automation and Cyber Security
• Network Resilience
• Whole Energy Systems
You'll manage a varied portfolio of works ensuring timely project management and regulatory reporting. You'll develop business cases to ensure innovation projects are sanctioned. You'll need to build effective business relationships across the whole industry landscape and promote and drive an innovation culture within NGET. You'll disseminate learning from innovation at presentations across industry events. You'll work with the business to ensure innovation is deployed within the business and the benefits of innovation are tracked. You'll be able to base yourself out of our offices in Warwick and you can combine this with hybrid working from home.

We're particularly interested to hear from you if you have expertise in Power System Engineering or Overhead Lines for this role. With expert knowledge of high voltage environments, and a track record of developing new technology-based products and services, you'll have experience of researching and developing a range of new technological ideas and performing individual research. You'll also have experience of analysing the technological landscape and developing ground-breaking, novel ideas to drive the industry forwards to deliver commercial value. You'll have an overall understanding of electricity transmission and have experience of working with internal stakeholders to implement new products and services into the business to deliver value. In addition, you'll have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be able to demonstrate project management skills and be proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

A competitive salary of £51,900 to £65,000 - dependant on capability
• 26 days annual leave plus eight statutory days
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it's relevant to your role.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.